STAN FACTS

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Human Patient Simulator
by Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI)

• METI's HPS- Human Patient Simulator: Known as Stan (short for Stan D. Ardman or Standard Man) is a virtual patient capable of simulating nearly any possible human medical emergency including allergic reactions, the effects of nerve gas or weapons of mass destruction, drug overdoses, a severed limb or other traumatic injuries.


• Creating a real life or death situation: Able to recognize and respond to medical treatment and drugs, once an emergency scenario is started, Stan becomes a real "life" placed in the hands of students that must diagnose and administer the correct treatment. Mistakes can send Stan into cardiac arrest and result in death, thus making any scenario, truly, life or death.


• Lifelike human characteristics: Each Stan unit is built to simulate human characteristics and functions including blinking and dilating eyes, tearing, drooling, bleeding, pulsing, inhaling oxygen, exhaling carbon dioxide (with chest movement), talking, urinating, swelling tongue, etc.


• Interactive Simulation: The Stan is completely interactive. Instructors use software to enter various emergency scenarios for which students are challenged to recognize according to the simulator's actions. The simulator then responds directly to the treatment as administered by the students. No interaction from the instructor is needed once the program has begun. Students can practice skills over and over again until mastery is achieved.


• Emergency Scenarios: METI has designed Stan to simulate physical (bleeding, pupil dilation) and physiological (pulse, heartbeat) characteristics for 100s of possible medical emergency situations.


• Who uses METI: Over 700 organizations worldwide utilize METI's technology including NASA, Center for Domestic Preparedness, U.S. and foreign military, leading medical schools such as Harvard, UCLA, Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai, Stanford and more.


• Emergency Training Facts: The majority of emergency professionals enter the field having only practiced on lifeless mannequins and do not experience their first real emergency situation until after they have completed training and enter the workforce.


• Training uses: Emergency preparedness, Disaster Training, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Bio Terrorism, Advanced Disaster Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support and more.